Hopefully you’ve had time to read my blog on getting VMware vRealize Operations Manager (vRO) running on Ravello Systems cloud platform. Since I recently took delivery of a Scale Computing cluster (kindly gifted to me by the lovely people at Scale, thanks @bocanuts) and I’ve been playing with image installs… Read More
I’m about to pen a series of blogs about VMware’s vRealize Operations Manager product (vRO), and in the interests of full disclosure, I need to tell you that I’m being paid to do so, and the parameters of this engagement. By now I hope you’re familiar with my approach to disclosure, and… Read More
I’m currently taking advantage of the generous vExpert offering from Ravello Systems, wherein we get some free time every month. So far it’s an excellent service, though not without some flaws, but hey, they’re brand new! I may do a more comprehensive writeup on Ravello later on, but if you’re… Read More
Satyam Vaghani, CTO at PernixData, spoke at vBeers for Melbourne VMUG o 21 May 2015. Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, you can hear what he said, right here! Enjoy! Read More
It has become somewhat of a tradition for me to write a bunch of preparation posts on the company’s I’ll be seeing at each Tech Field Day event. With Data Field Day 1 just around the corner (next week! Ah!) it’s about time I wrote up a little something about… Read More
We’ve all seen the AWS numbers now, and hopefully looked at them in a bit more detail than just the headlines. I’ve written about cloud economics before, so let’s revisit things a little. The AWS business is apparently a roughly $6bn-a-year revenue business. That’s all external revenue from customers, not… Read More
Last week we saw Amazon break out their AWS numbers as a separate segment for the first time, so of course, the entire tech press lost their collective minds and wrote reams about it. It’s bigger than we thought! It’s smaller than we thought! They have margin! OMG. I’ve previously… Read More
This piece of extremely specific Howto information is brought to you courtesy of my #vExpert trial license for VMware Workstation 11. I think Workstation was my first experience with VMware, back in the 2.x days. That or I was using vmware-server v1.x as a desktop virtualisation thing, as well as… Read More
The Melbourne VMUG UserCon 2015 was held last week, and was a great success. The vibe on the day was wonderful, and aside from the usual niggles that always crop up, attendees and sponsors alike told me they enjoyed the day. Numbers were slightly down on last year, but it… Read More
Quite a lot has happened for StorMagic since presenting at Virtualization Field Day 4. They’ve had plenty of good coverage from my fellow VFD4 delegates, and I highly recommend you go and read their perspectives: Jeff Wilson has a conversation with himself about StorMagic. Marco Broeken compares VMware VSAN to… Read More
